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1091 Epilogue 1

If we start from the offensive of the three armies in southeastern Russia, the entire Eastern Galicia battle lasts for 45 days. During these 45 days, the three armies of Russia, including the enhanced direct legion, had a huge force of 70,000 and the Austro-Hungarian Legion, and the 15 divisions of Bavaria and Prussia that arrived on the battlefield, had a total of 620,000 people, and launched a battle with the highest technical level, the largest consumption, and the most tragic battle in history.&1t;/p>

In this battle, the Russian Seventh Army and the Eighth Army were severely damaged. The two armies lost nearly 70% of their personnel and more than 80% of their heavy equipment, and 350,000 injured and captured personnel, setting the worst failure in the history of the Russian army. The two armies had more than 15oo artillery, self-propelled artillery, and train artillery at the beginning of the war. After the end of the battle, the 10th Russian army, as the general reserve team, also lost four divisions of troops under the city of Koville, and nearly 60,000 troops were beaten to pieces by Markens in three days.&1t;/p>

The situation of the Russian Ninth Army, which had been fighting positional wars with Prince Leopold, was better, but after all, there were three Bavarian divisions there to assist in the defense. After the two sides fought, the Russians successfully retreated after throwing away nearly 50,000 casualties. Although the damage was a bit large, it was far from being hurt.&1t;/p>

By the way, I would like to say the losses of the Russian Air Force. Before this battle broke out, the Russian Air Force concentrated nearly 400 aircraft, including nearly 600 Ilya 4 heavy bombers. What surprised the prince was that after the battle began, the Russians added about 150 aircraft, although it was useless. But the prince still wanted to know why Russia in this plane should supplement this in such a short time.

How many planes?! The nights outside Moscow may be good, but you have to talk about the aircraft manufacturing plant outside Moscow..... Let's go to bed. Not to mention Russia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire built a total of 54oo aircraft from 1914 to 1918! Russia is even more said, although they built the first four-bomber in history, hehe, it took more than three years to build 35oo aircraft!&1t;/p>

Let me put it this way, the Russians have increased the output before the war and in the past few months of the war, and can hold up 4O aircraft. This prince believes that after all, there is previous accumulation. But this is definitely the total number of the Russian Air Force after selling it. If we want to produce it temporarily and then replenish it? Even if the Russians fought for 4O months in history, it is actually impossible to produce 1O aircraft per month on average, and the production capacity in the middle and late stages is definitely higher than the previous stage. So, at this time, the prince really doesn't believe that Russia can replenish 15O aircraft in a month with its own strength!&1t;/p>

Well, even though the prince butterfly influenced history, the Russians invested more power and money to expand the air force. But there was always a bottleneck here, that is, the motive problem, which could not be solved simply by investing money. This is like the Nazis in history who could not get a Neon motive, and BM8o1 could not get a 22o horsepower. The Russians could not get a motive comparable to Jumo213. This is a technical gap, which is related to money and the size of the country, but it is not proportional...&1t;/p>

Well, no matter what, Russia has invested about 55o aircraft in this battle, but it is useless... Although they have also killed about 100 Bavarian Air Force aircraft. But they have really put all the old capitals of Russia's air force in. According to the intercepted Russian telegrams and their own statistics, the number of 55o aircraft can fly back in the end is estimated to be only three digits... Most of the remaining ones have been destroyed, and a small part has been abandoned or seized. If the Russians performed in history, then the Russian Air Force will not improve almost in the next year.&1t;/p>

But the prince still felt a little uneasy. He could think that the Russians must have used foreign motives, and he also knew that some routes could not be blocked, such as bypassing the Arctic route in Norway. In fact, this route was found in World War I, but the Russians during the Tsarist Russian period were really not strong. After transporting it to Murmansk, it was not easy to transport it south to the battlefield.&1t;/p>

By the way, in addition to this, it is also important to note that the losses of horses and vehicles. In this battle, the Russians lost about 90 perm. Don’t look at the small number. This is also the result of Russian industry’s efforts for several months. The number of losses in motor vehicles is about 80000 (including locomotives). As for horses? Those who were killed, exhausted, sick, and captured, the total number of horses lost by the Russians is about 150,000 to 180,000! Well, very good. This loss is probably to reduce the Russians’ future mobility capabilities to a higher level. After all, Russians have fewer horses than people, and it is very inconsistent to supplement. After getting so many horses, the prince began to consider whether to build a canned horse meat factory to consume these excess supplies? Lieutenant General Schmidt said that this is fine, horse meat tastes pretty good.&1t;/p>

OK. But no matter what, this is a victorious battle. It killed 40,000 Russian troops, destroyed, and seized more than 150,000 Russian artillery! It also completely destroyed the Russian Air Force. It is conceivable that for a long time in the future, it is not realistic for the Russians to supplement these losses. Even if you are released for 4 months, the prince believes that Russia can supplement the troops, but it is quite difficult for the Russians to supplement the artillery, machine guns, especially the air force.&1t;/p>

As for horses? The prince believes that to some extent, this is more important than destroying the heavy weapons of the Russian army. Although the number of military horses registered by the Russians in the later period reached more than 30,000, it was the result of completely squeezing the power of a country. Moreover, these horses are definitely not of the same level as those who try to fight at the beginning of the war. Of course, what is more important is the destruction of productivity. In this era, agriculture relies on livestock, and the United States cannot avoid customs, let alone Russia? What really caused Russia to collapse was the collapse of the economic system within Russia, and the lack of agriculture and transportation capacity was the most important reason.&1t;/p>

Of course, the prince believes that with the Russians' usual practice, Russia has the ability to replenish the nine armies on the Eastern Front when the Polish Pocket Battle, but, hehe, at the beginning and end of the Battle of 1, the size of the German 6th Army was at least twice! And if the war started for a year, if the Russians' army on the Eastern Front remained at 9 armies, it would be really bad. After all, the Russians were standing still, while the opponent's strength was growing! Why are you unbeaten?&1t;/p>
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